| Hood, Edwin Paxton |
b Half Moon St, Piccadilly (or ?Hanover Square), C London 1820, d Paris 1885. Son of one of Nelson’s seamen and a domestic servant, he was orphaned at the age of 6 and had no formal schooling. But… |
| Redman, Matt |
b Watford, Herts 1974. Brought up from the age of 2 to attend St Andrew’s Church (CofE), Chorleywood, Herts, he learned there to value varied styles of Christian music. His Christian faith became… |
| Haydn, Franz Joseph |
b Rohrau, Lower Austria 1732, d Vienna 1809. The firstborn of the 20 children of a rural and musical couple, a wheelwright and a cook; elder brother of JMH, qv. He became a choirboy in Vienna… |
| Collyer, William Bengo |
(originally ‘Bengow’), b Deptford, Kent (SE London) 1782, d Chislehurst, Kent 1854. Educated at Homerton Coll. At the age of 18 he began preaching at the Congregational Chapel on the corner of… |
| Evans, David Emlyn |
b Castellnewydd (Newcastle) Emlyn, Penralltwen, Dyfed (Cardiganshire) 1843, d Cemmaes, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 1913 (or London?). Apprenticed to a draper and clothier, he worked in that business… |
| Sankey, Ira David |
b Edinburgh, W Penns, USA 1840, d Brooklyn, New York, USA 1908. Growing up near the Mahoning River, he joined in the family’s farm work at Western Reserve Harbour from the age of 6. He was converted… |
| Byrom, John |
b Kersall (Kersal), nr Manchester, Feb 1691/92, d Manchester 1763. Merchant Taylor’s Sch, N London, and Trinity Coll Cambridge (BA/MA), of which he became a Fellow in 1714. In 1719 he studied… |
| Zundel, Veronica |
Born Coventry, 1953, of Austrian refugee parents; Barrs Hill Girls’ Grammar Sch, Coventry, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Univ (English, BA 1975). She is married to Ed Sirett, an engineering… |
| Stevens, John |
b Aldwincle, nr Kettering, Northants 1776, d ?London 1847. After a Northants boyhood, he travelled to London when he was about 16, joining the Baptist Ch at Grafton St, Soho. The pastor there was… |
| Burns, Edward (Eddie) Joseph |
b Nelson, Lancs 1938. Baines’ Grammar Sch, Poulton-le-Fylde nr Blackpool, Lancs; Liverpool Univ (BSc Chemistry, 1958), St Catherine’s Soc Oxford (BA Theology, MA), and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford… |
| Webster, Donald |
b Leeds 1926, d York 2002. A boy chorister at the notable Parish Church of Leeds, he trained as a teacher and after some years as a schoolmaster he went on to become a polytechnic lecturer. Musical… |
| Kelly, Thomas |
b Stradbally (Kellyville), Queen’s County, Ireland 1769, d Dublin 1855. Trinity Coll Dublin. Although trained in law and intending to follow his father in a legal career, he was converted from… |
| Kaan, Frederik Herman (Fred) |
b Haarlem, Netherlands 1929.d Cumbria 2009. After a childhood under Nazi occupation when his parents sheltered Jewish people at great personal risk, he came to England to study in 1952. He ministered… |
| Perronet, Edward |
b Sundridge, nr Westerham Kent 1726, d Canterbury, Kent 1792. The grandson of David Perronet, the first of a French Huguenot family to settle in England in 1680, and son of Vincent, the long-serving… |
| Macdonald, Donald M |
b Borrobol, Kinbrace, Strath of Kildonan, Sutherland, Scotland, 1944. Golspie Senr Secondary Sch; Edinburgh Univ (MB, ChB 1967, FRCS 1972). After beginning as a trainee surgeon in Edinburgh 1967–73,… |
| Hoare, Brian Richard |
b Upminster, Essex 1935. Southwell Minster Grammar Sch and Westminster Coll, London 1956–59 (BD and Teacher’s Cert). First a teacher in Calverton, Notts 1959–62, he then worked as Travelling Sec… |
| Robinson, Robert |
b Swaffham, Norfolk 1735, d Showell Green, nr Birmingham, Warwicks 1790. His first job was as a London barber’s apprentice, during which time he preferred his books to his business. When he was 17… |
| Allen, Cecil John |
b Clapton, Middx 1886, d Gloucs 1973. Joined the Engineer’s Dept of the Great Eastern Railway, whose history he later wrote, at 17; later became an inspector of materials for LNER (the London and… |
| Hastings, Thomas |
b Washington, Connecticut, USA 1784, d New York city, 1872. At the age of 12 he moved with his parents to Clinton in NY state by ox-drawn sledge. A doctor’s son and a near-sighted albino, said to… |
| Gounod, Charles-François |
b Paris, France 1818, d St Cloud nr Paris, 1893. His father having died in 1823, he was first taught music by his mother. He showed an early talent for painting, but at various Paris boarding schools… |
| Stanford, Charles Villiers |
b Dublin 1852, d St Marylebone, C London 1924. Son of a Dublin lawyer who provided a private education and let him study music on condition that he first graduated. Queen’s Coll, Cambridge… |
| Maries, Andrew |
(in Praise! Composers’ index only), b Totton, Southampton 1949. Totton Grammar Sch, York Univ (BA, ARCM). A Music Director who in the 1970s and early 80s served as one of the creative and… |
| Pal, Krishna |
b 1764, d 1822. A carpenter and Hindu guru, his name gradually became known worldwide when he became the first Christian convert from Hinduism after 7 years of missionary work by Wm Carey, Joshua… |
| Petersson (Pjétursson), Hallgrìmur (Hallgrim) |
b Gröf, nr Hólar, Iceland 1614, d Sourby, Iceland 1674. The son of a farmer and cathedral bellringer, expelled from the attached school for his satirical verse and sharp tongue. He was sent (or ran… |
| Alford, Henry |
b Bloomsbury, Middx (C London) 1810, d Canterbury, Kent 1871. The product of a long-standing clerical family, at the age of 6 he produced his own ‘Travels of St Paul’, at 11 a collection of hymns,… |
| Tomblin, Norman |
Norman Tomblin was born in Bradford on 24th June 1907, the youngest of 5 brothers. His parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren in Bradford and this was where he first came to know the Lord… |
| Flint, Annie Johnson |
b Vineland, NJ, USA, 1866, d Clifton Springs, New York, USA 1932. Born to Eldon and Mrs Johnson who both died before Annie was 6. Adopted with her sister by the Flint family, she was writing verse by… |
| Churchill, Wendy |
b Broxton, Cheshire 1957. Moving house several times as her father was a Methodist minister, she began to write songs at the age of 10, and attended Roundhay High Sch W Yorks; Plympton Grammar Sch,… |
| Latty, Geraldine |
Geraldine Latty is married to Carey Luce and lives in North London
Her musical worship journey has taken her from Australia to the Albert Hall, from street parties to cathedrals, from singing with… |
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Joannes Chrysostomos Wolfgangus Theophilus) |
b Salzburg, Austria 1756, d Vienna, Austria 1791. A budding mathematician and confident composer at the age of 5, he was accomplished on the violin and harpsichord 6. He spent the next 4 years touring… |
